Nehemiah 8:12-14

International Standard Version

¹² So all the people went to eat, to drink, to send something to those who had nothing,^[a] and to celebrate with great joy, because they understood the words that were being declared to them.

The Festival of Tents is Reinstituted^(A)

¹³ The next day, the heads of the families of all the people were gathered together, along with the priests and the descendants of Levi, to meet with^[b] Ezra the scribe in order to understand the words of the Law. ¹⁴ They found written in the Law that the Lord had commanded through Moses that the Israelis were to live in tents^[c] during the festival scheduled for the seventh month.